Seasons & episodes
S9 · E8Tribute Dinner 2011-12-21 · 42 min
The chefs must adapt quickly when their cooking mashes up with social networking and they begin receiving dish notes via Twitter. Later, they will each be able to pay homage to an influential teacher when they are asked to create dishes in the teachers' honor.
S9 · E9BBQ Pit Wars 2012-01-04 · 42 min
The chefs combine learning with cooking tonight when they use Nathan Myhrvold's Modernist Cuisine to influence their Quickfire dishes. Next, they team up for a barbecue cook-off where the diners determine the winning team.
S9 · E10Restaurant Wars 2012-01-11 · 42 min
The still-standing chefs sharpen their knives for the time-honored fan-favorite "Restaurant Wars" test. The all-encompassing culinary challenge tasks them to create an eatery, from its signage and logos to its menus and meals. The chefs prepare their dishes as quick as they can but the servers are having problems understanding where they need to go.
S9 · E11Fit For an Evil Queen 2012-01-18 · 42 min
The Quickfire is on the move, except it's the ingredients that are moving—by train. Next, the chefs must access the darkness inside of them when they are asked to create "evil" on a plate.
S9 · E12Block Party 2012-01-25 · 42 min
The chefs race against time to finish prep work for a meal. Later, they serve up cuisine at a food-drive block party. Guest judge: Cat Cora.
S9 · E13Bike, Borrow & Steal 2012-02-01 · 42 min
In this week’s Quickfire, Pee-wee Herman stops by and the chefs are tasked to create his favorite breakfast dish – pancakes! But this isn’t any old pancake. The Chefs are challenged to be as creative as possible when making their batter, toppings and presentation. In "Pee-wee’s Big Adventure,” Pee-wee learned a lot about searching the streets and asking for help. For the elimination challenge, the chefs are set loose in downtown San Antonio with a bike and $100, where they must find their ingredients and create a dish for Pee-wee’s dinner party. Pee-wee Herman joins Gail Simmons, head judge Tom Colicchio, and host Padma Lakshmi at judges’ table.
S9 · E14Mentors 2012-02-08 · 42 min
In this week’s Quickfire, the chefs must use their sense of touch, smell and taste to navigate through the pantry to gather ingredients for a dish while blindfolded. In a twist, the winning chef from Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen will re-enter the competition and join the remaining four chefs in the elimination challenge, where the chefs must create a delicious dish that will impress their mentors. Host Padma Lakshmi, along with Hugh Acheson, Gail Simmons and head judge Tom Colicchio will determine which final four chefs will advance to the finale.
S9 · E15Culinary Games 2012-02-15 · 42 min
The final 4 chefs arrive in Whistler, British Columbia, for a Top Chef twist on the Olympic games. From cooking on the world’s fastest gondola to a biathlon that requires marksman like precision to get the best ingredients, the chefs will need to have the concentration of a true culinary Olympian to advance to the next round in Vancouver.
S9 · E16Fire and Ice 2012-02-22 · 42 min
Asian Masters lend a hand in a tag-team-style Quickfire. The final 3 chefs must create a dish and cocktail that fuses the concept of fire and ice into one cohesive dish, a culinary testament of their journey from blazing Texas heat to blistering Vancouver cold.
S9 · E17Finale 2012-02-29 · 42 min
For the final challenge, each chef will take over a restaurant in Vancouver where they will have the chance to design a four-course meal for the judges and unbeknownst to them, friends and family.
S9 · E18Reunion 2012-03-07 · 42 min
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S10 · E1The Ultimate Chef Test 2012-11-07 · 42 min
Twenty-one contestants compete for fifteen spots in real-world challenges administered by the judges.
S10 · E2A Shock at the Space Needle 2012-11-14 · 42 min
The fifteen chefs who remain after last week's qualifying challenge must think on their feet and at a high elevation when a twist complicates their challenge.
S10 · E3Tom vs. Emeril: Turkeypocalypse 2012-11-21 · 42 min
The chefs choose international dumpling recipes for the Quickfire, and then team up with either Tom or Emeril in a Thanksgiving challenge.
S10 · E450's Food Flashback 2012-11-28 · 42 min
First the chefs must demonstrate their knife skills, and then they board a time machine, metaphorically at least, so they can design menus from the 1950s.
S10 · E5Pike Place Pickle 2012-12-05 · 42 min
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S10 · E6Even the Famous Come Home 2012-12-12 · 42 min
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S10 · E7Foiled Again 2012-12-19 · 42 min
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S10 · E8Jalapeño Business 2012-12-26 · 42 min
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S10 · E9Past Suppers 2013-01-02 · 42 min
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S10 · E10Battle Before the War 2013-01-09 · 42 min
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S10 · E11Restaurant Wars 2013-01-16 · 42 min
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S10 · E12Wolfgang Clucks 2013-01-23 · 42 min
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S10 · E13Chefs at Sea 2013-01-30 · 42 min
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